How do you tell if an article is an original study?

How do you tell if an article is an original study?

An article is considered original research if…

1. it is the report of a study written by the researchers who actually did the study.
2. the researchers describe their hypothesis or research question and the purpose of the study.
3. the researchers detail their research methods.
4. the results of the research are reported.

How can I download articles online?

Download in Chrome (Android) When using Chrome on an Android device, save a webpage for offline reading by opening the three-dot menu icon and tapping the download icon up top, which will download a version of the page for offline viewing.

What’s the difference between PubMed Medline and Embase?

MEDLINE contains more than 26.000 MeSH-terms with 83 subheadings and 213.000 synonyms whereas EMBASE has over 60.000 Emtree-terms (of which more than 30.000 are drug and chemicals) with 78 subheadings (64 are drug subheadings including 47 routes of drug administration) and 260.000 synonyms (over 175.000 drug synonyms).

What type of database is Medline?

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.

Is Medline a good database?

MEDLINE is a great resource for medical research because it is authoritative, peer-reviewed, and complete (as much as possible, anyway). MEDLINE is authoritative because it permits you to see who exactly conducted the research, who wrote the results, and even where the research was conducted.

Is MedlinePlus a scholarly source?

MedlinePlus is operated by the National Institutes of Health’s U.S. National Library of Medicine. This website is a reliable source of scientifically-based, peer-reviewed health information. There are no advertisements because it is already paid for by tax dollars.

What is similar to PubMed?

Dear Samer Dhaher , other than PubMed there are some database for published research article like- Google scholar, Cochrane Library, Web of science, Scopus, Hinari and many more. Some of them needs institutional access.

Why do we need library databases for research?

These databases contain scholarly and peer-reviewed articles written by credible authors, such as journalists, researchers and experts in their field. Since databases provide powerful search tools for narrowing results, users are able to more quickly find the information they need.